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yeah, but jackie, i can't think of any city/state/or other specific place that has become also a generic word..

China v. china?

Incidentally there used to be (and maybe still is) a chain of bingo halls in Britain called Mecca, owned if I remember correctly by the Morleys who started the Miss World contest. Somehow I suspect that doesn't go down too well.

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